The desaturated laser bolts are all over place. I noticed many of them when I was making colour correction notes for Harmy's version. In addition to the ones in the opening flyby and the remote, many shots in the Death Star battle are also affected. In one shot they will look great and then a moment later they have no color at all, or only a little bit, it's ridiculous. There is also a weird thing going on in a couple places where they have a nasty blue edge, so that instead of appearing to be green blasts with a yellow core, they are blue with a green core. Looks pretty horrific when you consider that in the original version all the laser blasts were consistently coloured and fully saturated.
As for crushed blacks, there's no way the film was ever supposed to look like that. It's true that the old video transfers were blown out and had little contrast, but the movie's 'true' look was very natural, not filled with darkness that obscures all the shadow detail.